redox

adjective RREH-dohks Rare

Origin: Portmanteau of reducción (reduction) and oxidación (oxidation).

Usage Note

Redox is an invariable adjective (no gender or number inflection) used in chemistry to describe reactions involving simultaneous oxidation and reduction — the transfer of electrons between species. In Spanish it functions just as in English: reacción redox, potencial redox. The related nouns oxidación and reducción each describe one half-reaction.

Examples

"Las reacciones redox son fundamentales en electroquímica."

Natural Translation

Redox reactions are fundamental in electrochemistry.

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